Purgatory 22/12/2025 Bit of a year-end review for @littledeercomics.bsky.social Here’s to many more comics and hopefully a warmer shop. And well, I only get an odd shift now and then, so you should support my work too linktr.ee/detectiveken

Purgatory 22/12/2025 Bit of a year-end review for @littledeercomics.bsky.social Here’s to many more comics and hopefully a warmer shop. And well, I only get an odd shift now and then, so you should support my work too linktr.ee/detectiveken

Back in my early comic days, 2008 probably, somebody described my work as “Just in-jokes with yourself” To this day I come back to that and think “Isn’t that all comedy though?”

Sadly only got 6 hours in. Could continue till 2AM but my attention span is out the window and don't remember any of the last hour. Such weakness on my part.

Normally unable to do one of these because most of my art is compounding layers till Procreate won’t let me anymore, but here’s a time-lapse

A good old fashioned study

Half this film is perfectly framed tiny baby Jennifer Connelly and the other half is blood and insects.

Imagine still using Twitter.

Having a Normal Christmas Eve.

Cunk spittin Christmas cheer

I dusted off my editing skills to make this because the goblins in my brain decided it needed to exist. I apologize profusely.

Last day open in 2025! Only going to close the shop briefly around 2 for a last post office run of the year. But otherwise open until 5! littledeercomics.ie

We’re just normal men

tl;dr: GenAI and game design concepts traditionally referred to as "AI" (enemy behaviors, pathfinding, etc.) are not the same thing, and I'm on my knees begging people to learn the difference, lest we see more bullshit claims like what The Escapist put out re: Blue Prince.

Simply Having A wonderful

Perfect Blue (1997). Key art of Mima Kirigoe by Satoshi Kon. The style blurs the lines between reality and illusion, which is a central theme of the film.

I've been feeling this discussion needed to happen eventually, because as a medium with AI inherently built into its production, games where going to face muddy waters when people stopped distinguishing between a roguelike's procedural generation and the use of an LLM.

Nolan be like

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

A new Purgatory is up on the Patreon, in which I have my last Little Deer shift of the year www.patreon.com/posts/purgat...

Purgatory 15/12/2025 I made a lot of comics over the last few years, but not half as much as I meant to. My Patreon is called Worldender, not Ken’s Sad Hour after all. You can support both the same way though linktr.ee/detectiveken

Should do threads like this more often. Lots of books I didn't have time to get to

Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

Just another few minutes and @detectiveken.bsky.social is done for the year. There’s just two more days left and we close for the holidays. For Ken, it’s been good being here the odd time, here’s to brighter days and a (hopefully) better world.

Tell me you don't see it

Whenever I get mad I think of this tweet and it takes a lot of the bluster out of me

Actually watched the whole thing now. Does Jake Paul know how to box? He only seems to have lasted 6 rounds because he spent 4 and a half kiting AJ like he was a Dark Souls boss.

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

re todays main topic of discussion: you can focus on the ugly things in the world (jake paul's face as his jaw shatters) or the beautiful things (fascinating back musculature of the guy punching him)

Back for my last shift of 2025 tomorrow. Might do a bit of a retrospective on books I enjoyed if they're in stock.

You tellin' me this guy lost??

My favourite game this year? The original 1997 Armored Core, which totally counts because it was ported this year for PS4/5. It would only be beaten by its sequel Project Phantasma, which is definitely better, and I might still finish it, so stay tuned.

BIRDCAGE just reached 'Overwhelmingly Positive' on Steam! thanks so much for playing our game, for leaving a review, adding it to your wishlist, telling your friends about it -- it means the world to us. (also, the game is 10% off right now!) store.steampowered.com/app/2158550/...

SUPER STREET FIGHTER II: THE NEW CHALLENGERS CAPCOM 1994 SNES

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

Remember way back I wanted a classic SNES style JRPG where the combat system was Tetris? Well it exists, and it's 50% off store.steampowered.com/app/1372000/...

I'm going to not buy a single game in 2026. so of course I need to be a dumbass and grab the last dregs of cheap games in the Steam Winter Sale so I can have zero peace of mind about my backlog

Purgatory 15/12/2025 I made a lot of comics over the last few years, but not half as much as I meant to. My Patreon is called Worldender, not Ken’s Sad Hour after all. You can support both the same way though linktr.ee/detectiveken

but I’ve been trying really hard hard the last few months to keep a few trilogies and mini series in stock! In store and online! littledeercomics.ie

Even horror! A shelf I don’t even go near because I imagine it’s haunted.

This does the job translating and I finished it there. A fantastic run down of the affects the BIA had and criticism of how it's continuing. Julija did a great job here and offered to translate it for me herself, but I'd prefer a way to share it around easier because it's important work.

I think a lot of the discussion around AI isn't specific enough or informed enough, and that's why this piece from @edmondtran.bsky.social is so useful and important. These are actual concept artists spelling out in clear, unambiguous terms why Gen-AI is not only unhelpful, it's a nuisance.

the thing that drives me insane about genAI/chatgpt bullshit is that brother, the process IS the work IS the entire thing. no artist comes to art for the final result. the final result is inextricable from the fucking labor that came into making it

With the shit I've seen this guy say since KCD2 came out, I'd have doubts he did anything worthwhile on his own games other than complain.

me when it happens

#チェンソーマン 3Dで作ったチェンソーマンとヨル せっかくなので並べて戦闘シーン みたくしてみました

Actually baffled that this is a half hour longer than my Jill run, but I know I did it in probably half the time.

Ireland 🇮🇪 based @cartoonist.coop members sound off! I’m gonna be back in the country soon and would love to get an Irish chapter of the org together and organised.